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Firmware 3.0.1 is now available for the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS through iTunes. The update is around 300MB. Apparently, there is no new features or fixes other than the text message exploit patch.

The technique involves sending only one unusual text character or else a series of “invisible” messages that confuse the phone and open the door to attack. The hack was demonstrated at the Black Hat 2009 conference in Las Vegas. The attack takes advantage of a vulnerability in the phone’s short messaging service, or SMS, feature, allowing an outside party into the phone’s root access without the owner’s knowledge.

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When Apple reviews your app, they will eventually give you some Submission Feedback, people around the web is collecting them as an unpublished set of rules and clarifications from Apple’s App Review team that can cause your iPhone app to be rejected.

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I have a few suggestions for developers using bleeding edge systems on iPhone.

1. The OS will expire. Be sure you update to the latest available system before you, say, go out of town to Railsconf. We’ve been warned you don’t use OS3 on a production phone, but that’s easy advice to ignore when things seem to be going swimingly.

2. Download every beta OS for your device even if you don’t expect to use it. I found OS3 beta5 won’t install on this iPhone. I don’t think I’m alone here, but it might only affect the original iPhone. I had to go to a beta4 to get running again.

3. If you do find you can’t run the latest beta, mangle the Apple URL to download an older image. Since I didn’t have beta4 downloaded, what I did was copy Apple’s URL for the beta5 image, change the fives to fours, and

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How do you determine, and place custom developed iPhone Native app in a specific category within the iTunes App Store?

How is the placement determined within the category once the app is launched. What makes them come up first when people searches the App Store?

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Short story of an iPhone App submission for review to Apple, now published on the iTunes App Store

They say there are just a few things that are certain in life: death, taxes… and perfectionism-driven-development. There are few professions out there that are so obsessed with perfection. WordPress’ motto “Code is Poetry” probably says that all.

That is why when, for the first time, I had to deal with Apple having to approve something you’ve written and designed, I had to face a little performance anxiety.

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